Catholics in Minnesota will gather to ask for God’s protection and to pray against the nation’s first Satanic monument approved for display on public land.

Lay members of the Catholic church will gather July 15 for a rosary rally to pray for America’s protection from Satan, in light of a Satanic monument approved in May for display in a veterans memorial park in Belle Plaine, Minn. The monument, a large black steel cube engraved with a golden inverted pentagram topped with an upturned soldier’s helmet, is the first such monument approved for display on public grounds in the U.S. The rosary rally is organized by America Needs Fatima (ANF) and Return to Order (RTO), two campaign branches of a Catholic lay organization called Tradition, Family, and Property.

“The best way that Satan can accomplish his mission of luring souls into damnation is to erode the horror, the natural horror, that men have of the devil,” said Robert Ritchie, director of America Needs Fatima, in an interview with The Daily Caller News Foundation.

Satanic rituals are hardly new to the U.S., and in fact, appear to be rising throughout the West, as the number of Christian exorcisms has been rising, in a bid to rid people of their inner demons.

An “astonishing” rise in harmful Christian exorcisms is being partly driven by migrant communities, a think tank has warned.

A report by Theos, a think tank focusing on religion, found that experts were concerned that the “booming industry” in exorcisms was putting Christians’ mental health at risk.

The report, which examines the relationship between Christianity and mental health, said: “Exorcisms are now a booming industry in the UK, with a number of interviewees noting the astonishing increase in demand – often, as one noted, in defiance of any actual rules or procedures put in place by any church.”

It said that this industry was in part “driven by immigrant communities and Pentecostal churches which are very open about their exorcism services”.

Pastor Earl: Perhaps I am reading this article wrong. What is being touted as the first Satanic Veterans Monument is reported as being opposed by a group that is going to fight it by praying the Rosary.

There are those of us who actually take Christ at His Word, according to John 14: 13 which says, “And I will do whatever you ask in my name,” so that the Father may be glorified in the Son, and we will be praying against this in ways that Jesus instructed and said He would respond to.

The conspiracy is even more insidious – as the article deems the pagan Catholic Rosary appropriate, while the Christian churches are painted as dangerous.